He might have been bad at math, but even he could spot a pattern like this. Christmas season starts, weird decorations show up, people start kissing each other. Simple, if annoying.

And this year he was going to do something about that.

And that was why Danny had spent the morning stripping the castle of as many decorations (especially poinsettias) as he could find and transferring them into a pile in the courtyard. Then with a smirk he flips open the journal.]

Yeah, so. I decided to declare war against Christmas. People might want to avoid the courtyard for a bit.

[And with that he points at the pile of decorations and blasts them. What could possibly go wrong?]

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[Following in the grand tradition of that one crazy girl she met and quickly befriended last year, Rise is on the prowl with a poinsettia from the decorations firmly affixed to her sweater. And Danny made the mistake of revealing his location.

She just can't resist the chance to see the look on his face. Even if it is a little mean. She could make it up to him later!

Fortunately for Danny, she's not as forward as Effy. So she slips up behind him as innocently as she can, once the carnage is over and the pile of decorations are apparently sufficiently destroyed.]

Awww... I thought they were pretty.

[Is she close enough? She doesn't feel any urge to kiss him yet. She hopes her poinsettia is still working...

Anyway, keeping up the innocent, pouting over destroyed decorations act!]

There's nothing wrong with just leaving the decorations alone, you know.

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[Suddenly, she's right up in his personal space. And there's the familiar pull, which she's not even going to try to fight. Convenient that she can still blame what's about to happen on the magic, even though she's willingly going along with it.

Draping an arm over his shoulder to pull him close, she moves in to press her lips against his - gently, but firmly.

He could pull away fairly easily, if the magic hasn't gotten to him as much. But Rise's counting on getting a little more mileage out of this.]

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[Shhh, just enjoy it, Danny! Rise stays right where she is, wrapping her arms around him even more and patiently waiting to see if he'll stop flailing and give in. Either he'll have to push her away or make her bored with this game, at this point...]

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[Dairine probably should have learned after three Christmases here not to ever leave her room once December hit. However, she was morbidly curious to know exactly what kind of war this guy was planning on doing.

It should be fine so long as she kept her distance, right?

And so with a BANG, she appears within the courtyard, a fair distance away from where Danny had situated himself. She squints at the sight before her.]